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ia | 2 ee ‘tine Seizure. ‘Likely Mové | ‘Tf Workers ! | Go on Strike | Roosevelt Won't Act | Until After UMW . Meeting Monday; 142,000 Men Out Strife Within WAR LABOR BOARD public members protest charge by FL members of the board at coal decision was dictated y other Government agencies. ayne Morse demands that hey prove or retract tb charges. (Page 55 - . Deadline Near : By Ben W. Gibert ‘« President Roosevelt promised ~Jast night “to take decisive action “fo see that coal is mined” in the event the United Mine Workers policy committee rejects the War Labor Board’s Hiinois decision at a scheduled Monday morning mset- The President's statement was le made public by the White House | ‘at a time when more than 142,000, > feizure of the mines, immediate- | + fy invoking the crimina) penalties | _ gf the Connaly-Smith Antisteike | “pet, was as the t Ukely “decisive” ection the - * dent would take, although Service arder to induct - t ‘tng minery was also in the picture. Spokesmen for the Appalachian ena) operators estimated that 90. scout terday. The ted Press,!re- vorth thet an additional 52,700 |. fart; coal from wor, yesterday to celebrate Jobn Mitchell Day, in honor of a founder of the UMW and leader of anthracite strikes in 1900 and 1902. President Roosevelt ‘sald he would take no action until after the policy committee meeting, but was “watching the situation carefully. The seriousness of the coal short- age war emphasized by the Presi- deat and by Secretary of Interior Harold L. Jekes, who in a separate ection froze at the mines all bard and soft coal gn domestic sizes to use 84 ko emergency pool to pro- vide home heating coal needed to lieve distress situations. . rn a reroark believed directed at the threatened fourth general coal strike with the expiration of the current coal “truce” tomor- row midnight, the President said, “We can no more tolerate the ist: | ting down of coal production we can tolerate letting down of shipping of supplies to our fight ing men.” The effect of the President's Uk- ter was to put the miners squarely on the spot-—to decide whether to oct 30 1988 WASHINGTON POST Pe. wa i ee oe C) en Mr. Telson Mr, EB. 4. Tamm | Mr. Clegg Mr. Coffey Mr. Glevin_ 4, Mr. Ladd OX Mr. Nichols - Wr. Rosen dr, Traey. fr. Acors tr | go ahead with a complete shutda | volving 530,000 miners and th i Itened rejection of the WLB ‘posal for an alternative . . Carson replace the ene turned i'r. Barbe the Illinois case for containing an ., Hendon ‘Qninstified ewage ineresee of 21h. centaa day). - ' yf. Mumford Without oning UMW Preat--'- Btarke dent John wis by name, the ?. Quinn Tacom__ Chief Executive included two rr: Noase pointed digs at the mine leader. | . “Certainly in wartime, the miners will not take the position that they, wi. sign no contract other than one, Sictated by their leaders,” the! President said. “We are at war, end all af na most make scarrifires . for our common good and common safety.” Mr. Roosevelt also ‘said “there, fs no basis for the assertion | the board's proposals involve in any way a Teduction in the basic | that the minera are receivi | thus challenging » statement mgBe | by Lewis in a telegram to bis Rib temants which was interpreted : signal for a general cos) strike. —- Davis, in a letter ta the Presi-- \ Gent which the White House made : public when the Presidents an-; wwering letter was released, stated: “The issue is the same clear. one eginning of the eval controversy, amely: Sha)! the wage stabijliza- | on policies of the Government be | ’ lied and enforced irrespective e portal-to-portal controversy the WLAB would approve—“has rescived { re- the i pe E F NOT RECORDED” Awnov S 1343